Born 1978 in Saint Clair, Missouri
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Hunter College

EDUCATION
2008 MFA in Painting, Hunter College
2005 BFA in Painting and Art History, Kansas City Art Institute

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 "Liquid Matter", The Fabric Workshop and Museum in conjunction with the De La Cruz Collection, Philadelphia, PA

2011 "Chain Letter"Shoshana Wayne Gallery,Santa Monica,CA

2010 "Continuing Color Abstraction" The Painting Center, New York, NY

2010 "Arrival/Departure" Urban Culture Project/La Esquina, Kansas City, MO

2010 "Ripe" The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO

2009 "Alternative Abstraction" Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo NY

2008 "Altered States" Francis Lewis Gallery, Flushing, NY

2008 "MFA Thesis Exhibition" Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

2007 "MAs Curate MFAs" Times Square Gallery, New York NY

2006 "Surface Tension" Monarch Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2006 "Merging of the Minds" Steuben Gallery-Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2005 "New Blood" Monarch Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2004 "Painting Seeing" Destination Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2004 "Emerging Artist Exhibition" Mallin and Jacqueline B. Charno Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2002 "The Drawing Show" Destination Gallery, Kansas City, MO


AWARDS/HONORS
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nomination, 2011.

Tony Smith Award Grant, Hunter College

H and R Block Artspace Guest Critique Program

Daniel Macmorris Scholarship for Excellent Promise in Painting and Drawing, Kansas City Art Institute

LECTURES/VISITING ARTIST SERIES
Visiting Artist and Lecturer in conjunction with the exhibition “Arrival/Departure”, Kansas City Art Institute, 2010

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Colin Dabkowski, "Five Alternative Views of Abstraction", The Buffalo News, April 2009.